The Tropical Fruit Forum

Congrats on the grafts. If you can get a Prague Chimera that would be great- satsuma fruit on a very hardy tree.

A single Prague fruit has set. I pollinated it with Meyer pollen because it was the only pollen I had. The other flowers fell off after heavy rain knocked them off but a new flush of flowers are well on their way to blooming. Hope these ripen by mid November

Here is another rated for zone 5

https://pfaf.org/user/Plant.aspx?LatinName=Myrica+heterophylla

Figured I'd start a thread. First off is this cross possible?

The northern and southern myrica do hybridize.
The pensylvanica (northern) is hardier for zones 3-7 but the berries are basically inedible

I am currently looking for a female pensylvanica to try this cross. Will need to source yangmei pollen or keep the pensylvanica containerized and graft a male yangmei branch to it.

which grafting techniques are you trying? the meiwa i grafted to citrumelo died to the graft point after 2 or 3 years, cant remember now. i have some of its seedlings growing directly in the ground now inside my GH. no more potted kumquats for me lol. my potted hindsii also died this spring.

I can’t get Meiwa grafts to take Nagami. Fukushu seems to take no problem but after trying twice with several scions each time they just die.

Oops I somehow missed this post. I remember reading about this species! I'll look around for a pad as I am terrible with seeds.

Quote from: Pandan on June 04, 2023, 10:49:43 PM

Also this is a desire of mine: large, sweet and glochidless opuntia

maybe this one is interesting for breeding

'Willoughby Spit' Prickly Pear
https://store.experimentalfarmnetwork.org/products/willoughby-spit-prickly-pear?_pos=2&_sid=3ddb8c474&_ss=r

on EFN there was an O.stricta type with similar traites (now it has disappeared)

https://www.experimentalfarmnetwork.org/project/16

nice! do you have pictures of the fruit and the thornless one? how is the larger fruit, is there any tasty pulp?

I have a large opuntia humifusa with fig sized fruit and a patch of heritage thornless opuntia humifusa in need of love. I hope to breed both with opuntia ficus indica eventually. Unfortunately, I only have a single rooted pad of that one, so unless I find a large potted example, I think I'm a long ways off from that goal. Wishing the other folks on that path the best!

Thuja occidentalis (eastern white cedar) is all over here as privacy hedges so we get rust. The property here also has it on the perimeter so its unavoidable. My seeds never sprouted so we'll see what comes up. I'll keep any seedlings that look more resistant like I did with my quince seedlings

Pomegranate- the "Russian" varieties. I'm growing a few. So far the Afganski fruited and it's great. Won't be buying any underripe Wonderfuls from the grocery store ever again.
Persimmons- any really. Pest free.
Stone fruit- cherry, peach, plum, etc I like stone fruit but the pests make it a pain to grow, I don't wan't to spray pesticide so I bag the fruit. Kaolin clay has mixed results due to all the rain in the spring washing it off and giving the insects time to attack before the next spray.
The bush cherry varieties don't get bothered as much, fruit is sour but can be processed.

My sister would get itchy mouth/burning lips from mango. One day she had "anaphylaxis" and her throat swelled shut after eating a mango. Could be the early warning signs for a severe reaction. Keep some Benadryl an epi-pen nearby just in case 😜

I missed trying this one. I did try hallabong grown in Jeju Island! It's supposed to be the same as Dekopon but the fruit is more tasty due to growing conditions.

Looks good. Here's an update on my Hachiya on Jiro Fuyu cleft, bark, and bud grafts. All seem to be growing! 100% success. The next battle is making sure the wind doesn't tear the bark grafts off lol

I've only ever seen them at Whole Foods. I do not have a grafted one as I've pretty much given up on growing citrus in containers I can only keep expensive plants alive for 2-3 years max in a pot haha. I decided to try growing kumquats from seed and planting directly in the ground inside the GH. I have now have a fruiting limequat from seed and it only took 2 years. Also growing a meiwa, Nagami, and Thomasville (that one is grafted) so we'll see how long this half mandarin kumquat will take to flower. The Meiwa and Nagami plants came from my now dead potted plants. Those should flower around 2-3 years as well.